Turtles Need Rehab Too

It's only June and I'm just starting to add pix from April vacation. I'm hoping for a boring summer where I get caught up on everything AND have a clean house. Until then, I dream...

Here are a few snaps from the ever-growing Turtle Rehabilitation facility in Jupiter. We happened to visit this year on a day when they were cleaning the tanks and weighing and measuring the "patients". So we got a really cool glimpse at some of the stuff the staff and volunteers do there to take care of their shelled friends.

We also managed to get just a few (cough cough) cute ones of the kids and Papa too, go figure.

While we were standing there watching the whole process I happened to see a man standing there with a shirt from our local high school on. It's a fairly generic name, but the font was right so I decided to approach him. Sure enough, they not only live in our towen, but had kids that go to our kids' school. Microscopic world.

Another piece of cool news is that we are so often taken with the turtles at the "farm" that we got a special surprise from Papa. Just the other day we received our paperwork that Devin and Julia are the proud "parents" of a rescue turtle named "Morgan". They are not quite sure if Morgan is a boy or a girl (something having to do with the state of tail growth) but we are just loving him/her and hope that he/she is well enough to get released next spring (hopefully when we're down there, how cool would that be?)